When I started to learn programming in the mid-90s, it was still common to not have home Internet (or, if you did, it was too expensive to spend the whole day o

When I started to learn programming in the mid-90s, it was still common to not have home Internet (or, if you did, it was too expensive to spend the whole day online). I learned a lot of programming from the VB helpfiles, a random book on VB from Barnes and Nobles, and recording VB macros in Excel and frankenstein-ing them back together to do different things. In particular, learning from recording macros and seeing the command was a very intuitive way to learn - I didn't have to guess at what the first version of a program would do.